Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1 - 10 of 17 results for "OECD average"

Treasury shakes up foreign investing framework

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
... attractive destination for foreign investment, with investment flows into our country consistently outpacing the OECD average since 2006. Direct and portfolio foreign investment in our economy grew to be worth about $3.5 trillion in 2023," Chalmers said. ...

Cut spending and raise taxes, super preservation age: Grattan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
... Tax. Grattan said that even by implementing all the tax-focused recommendations, Australia would still be below the OECD average in terms of tax collections as a share of the economy. In terms of spending reductions, it's recommended cutting spending ...

Australia improves super system quality

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021
... to 43% pension gap among men and women. Australia meanwhile recorded a gap of nearly 20%, which is less than the OECD average of 25%. There is no single cause of the gender pension gap, the study found, rather it is much more complicated and the result ...

Limited super investment in VC holding Australia back: AVCAL

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
... handful of others countries including China, Taiwan and Singapore), at just 0.023% of Australia's GDP compared to the OECD average of 0.049%. AVCAL chief executive Yasser El-Ansary says that if Australia is to be truly ambitious, it must seek to emulate ...

Australia ranks fifth for financial literacy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... Peter Kell said he welcomed these results, noting 15% of Australian students were high performers compared to the OECD average of 12%. But he acknowledged that 20% of Australian students were low performers compared to the 22% OECD average. Kell said ...

FSC calls for 22% company tax

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... benefit of a lower company tax rate of 22% will be a reduction in the federal budget's reliance on corporate tax. The OECD average reliance on company tax is 8%, while Australia's is more than 18%. A lower reliance on company tax will mean Australia's ...

GST increase would deliver $42 billion: FSC

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... insurance adds further pressure to Commonwealth budgets." Bragg added Australia's tax mix is the converse of the OECD average. He said Australia is heavily reliant on personal and company taxes, whereas the average OECD nation has a higher reliance on ...

Australia lagging in Asia-Pacific financial relationships

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... Australia, one of the most open economies in the Asia-Pacific region and with a degree of openness that exceeds the OECD average.

Property groups looking through the schooner glass

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... Development (OECD) recently released a report that said Australia's alcohol consumption was about 5% higher than the OECD average. Members of the OECD include the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Germany, Korea and Japan among 28 other countries. ...

Industry responds to Grattan report

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... over the last decade, it has dragged down the aggregate performance of Australia's super system to below that of the OECD average," he said. Arguing that super outcomes are best-delivered by funds that "return all profits to members," he emphasised the ...
PAGE:
1
PREVIOUS
NEXT